| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: authorities.
The inquiry into existing legislation on insane criminals,
undertaken by the ``Socit Gnrale des prisons de
Paris,'' showed that in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Croatia,
Belgium, Portugal, and Sweden, the authors of crimes or offences
who are acquitted on the ground of insanity are withdrawn from all
control by the judicial authority, and entrusted to the more or
less regular and effectual control of the administrative
authority. In England, Holland, Denmark, Spain, and
Russia, on the contrary, the judicial authority is empowered and
even compelled to order the seclusion of these individuals in an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: brought about all at once. They depend almost entirely on the moral
condition of the population, which we can never completely reform
without the potent aid of the cures. This remark does not apply to you
in any way, M. Janvier."
"Nor do I take it to myself," laughed the cure. "Is not my heart set
on bringing the teaching of the Catholic religion to co-operate with
your plans of administration? For instance, I have often tried, in my
pulpit discourses on theft, to imbue the folk of this parish with the
very ideas of Right to which you have just given utterance. For truly,
God does not estimate theft by the value of the thing stolen, He looks
at the thief. That has been the gist of the parables which I have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "Then--what do you want?"
Slowly we worked our way from point to point, until at last the
word "divorce" was before us.
"If we can't live together we ought to be free," said Marion.
"I don't know anything of divorce," I said--"if you mean that.
I don't know how it is done. I shall have to ask somebody--or
look it up.... Perhaps, after all, it is the thing to do. We
may as well face it."
We began to talk ourselves into a realisation of what our
divergent futures might be. I came back on the evening of that
day with my questions answered by a solicitor.
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